Morgana

Cover design for The Darkest Hour

Once again, a (bad) photo because this is A3(ish). I am surprisingly happy with how this turned out. Does it work for you? 

I tried to paint without thinking too much - if I think too much, the result never looks good O_O. So I used several colours that I have tried to avoid in the past, not least among which are (ivory) black and Payne's Grey. I love Payne's Grey. I also found that my Chrome Green is not the bad buy that I thought it was. When used with lots of water, it makes a lovely, subdued green. I adore it.

A3 concept...

I apologise for the bad photo: the original painting is A3 size and doesn't fit onto my scanner.Hence, you get a photo taken in artificial light around midnight. Sorry. This is one for the copyshop... In reality, the colours are much better, I promise.

This is pretty much what the pages of the comic will look like. Well, this is a splash page, of course, but the line art and colours will be like this. Suggestions? Concerns?

All About Arthur

Have a young Arthur. The gentleman is giving me trouble! I had scripted the passage in which he is introduced, but I hadn't laid it out yet because I felt something wasn't working quite right. At 3.30 this morning I resolved to approach the passage differently and to rewrite it. So that is what I will be doing. 

Have a young Arthur. The gentleman is giving me trouble! I had scripted the passage in which he is introduced, but I hadn't laid it out yet because I felt something wasn't working quite right. At 3.30 this morning I resolved to approach the passage differently and to rewrite it. So that is what I will be doing.

Meanwhile, I'm trying out different types of paper for my definitive art. This is Lana Cold-Pressed. Though this paper has always been a favourite of mine, it seems it cannot take all the rubbing and erasing that went on during the sketch phase, so I guess that rules it out :(.

In case anyone is interested, the process I am using looks like this:

- I sketch my image in watercolour pencil.
- I ink with a Faber-Castell brush pen.
- I take a brush with water to the watercolour pencil lines to disperse them and turn them into a wash.
- I paint the picture.